3 Indonesian Vegetable Urap Recipes, Want To Try Breaking The Fast?

Illustration of vegetables (Twitter / @ bayu_masbay)

JAKARTA - It is known as urap, a salad in the form of a mixture of Indonesian-style vegetables with flavor-enhancing spices from coconut. In Indonesia, there are several types of ointment, including kencur leaf ointment, jukut, cicah, kuluban, and trancam or raw vegetable ointment.

The five types of vegetable ointment both use coconut spices. Usually served with tumpeng or yellow rice. Well, if you want to make home-style, you can note the following ointment recipes:

Kencur leaf urine

Illustration of a leaf of a leaf (Twitter / @ sajiansedap)

Materials:

Young kencur leaves, cut the tubers and wash 7 long bean stalks, cut into 2 finger segments 100 grams of bean sprouts ½ young coconut, grated

Ground spices:

3 cayenne pepper 5 curly chilies 4 garlic cloves 3 lime leaves 1 kencur shoot ¼ tbsp shrimp paste, baked ½ tbsp salt 100 grams brown sugar, fine comb 2 tbsp tamarind water

How to make:

. Steam kencur leaves and long beans. Remove when it's half soft and set aside. Combine grated coconut and ground spices. Add a little water and roast until cooked. Combine the vegetables or kencur leaves and coconut spices. Ready to serve.

Aceh-style ointment or cicah

Materials:

5 young sweet potato leaves, boil until tender, cut 5 young papaya leaves, boil until tender, chop 150 grams of papaya flowers, chop and boil until tender

Ground spices:

½ young coconut, grated lengthwise 5 pieces of orange leaves, finely chop 100 grams of peanuts, roast until cooked then roughly chop 3 pieces of cayenne pepper 4 cloves of red onion 3 pieces of sunti 2 lemongrass, finely chopped

How to make:

Mix ground spices. Mix with vegetables and ready to serve.

Balinese style of urap

Illustration of the jukut urap bali (Twitter / @ thelivingworld)

Materials:

200 grams of long beans, boil 200 grams of sprouts, soak in hot water and clean the skin 150 grams of grated coconut 1 lime leaf 1 lemongrass, crush ½ of galangal fingers, bruise salt and sugar to taste

Ground spices:

½ teaspoon shrimp paste ½ old turmeric knuckle 1 kencur finger 2 onion cloves 1 garlic clove Red chilies and bird's eye chilies according to taste

How to make:

Mix the ground spices with grated coconut. Also mix the orange slices, lemongrass, bay leaves, and galangal. Cook by adding a little water. Add sugar and salt. Check the taste and remove when cooked. Mix vegetables with coconut seasoning.

How to make an easy ointment right? Actually, you can add a variety of vegetables. Including the vegetables you like, but basically an archipelago-style ointment or salad uses coconut spices to add flavor to the vegetable mixture.